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Re: He-111 Profiles

Ah, I can understand that - I wish I had known my grandfather on my father's side, he died when I was 6-ish, but apparently had been a sniper in the Black Watch... I can't find him in any WW1 database though, so I may have been misinformed...

Re: He-111 Profiles

Unfortunately, my dad's dad was dead years before I was born, and dad himself only recalls fragments of what his father said about such times and events, rare though those utterances were. I've often had the feeling that the old man may have shared with me info he didn't share with dad.

Regarding the Black Watch: it may be that you do not find anything useful til about 2020, when the information "may" become declassified. The reason for this is that the Black Watch was one of the units used very early on for supplying personnel to and for various covert and undercover purposes and organisations.
In some respects, the use of Black Watch personnel in such roles predates both the SAS and Combined Ops (Mountbatten's lot), yet serves as prototype for both.